Aaliah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AH-lee-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Aaliah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high, exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Aaliah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Alia; also a Hebrew word meaning ascent
“high, exalted”
Arabic aliya means high or exalted, from the same root as Ali; Hebrew aliyah means ascent.
Meaning borrowed from Alia. More on Wiktionary.
Is Aaliah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aaliah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aaliah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2003, with 21 girls.
Half of all the girls named Aaliah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aaliah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 13 | #2,046 |
| 2007 | 9 | #2,543 |
| 2006 | 18 | #1,481 |
| 2005 | 15 | #1,608 |
| 2004 | 17 | #1,399 |
| 2003 | 21 | #1,156 |
| 2002 | 16 | #1,333 |
| 2001 | 18 | #1,204 |
| 2000 | 6 | #2,554 |
| 1999 | 9 | #1,921 |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
How popular is Aaliah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,104among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 29% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Aaliah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 69 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had fewer girls named Aaliah than any year since 1996.
Half of all the girls named Aaliah in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 520 girls in the US were given Aaliah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #578, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Aaliah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,675 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,165 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,006 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,383 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,422 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,429 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,001 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,776 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,313 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,013 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,670 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,642 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,583 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,750 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,504 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,313 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,387 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,105 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,010 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,860 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,644 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,890 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,068 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,413 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,036 |
| 1994 | 15 | #5,978 |
Names like Aaliah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Sumayyah Ayah Zainab Ruqayyah Aaminah Nusaybah Aafiyah Safiya Abeeha Hafsa Hiba
Other spellings of Aaliah
Names related to Aaliah
Aaliyah Alaia Aliyah Aaliya Aaila Alaiyah Aalia Aliha Aliah Alaiah Alahia Aalayah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aaliah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aaliah, updated 20 October 2026.